Big Sister (software)
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Big Sister System and Network Monitor is open source
Open source
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 software, licensed under the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
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 version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

Big Sister originally was the Big Sister network monitor. Now, multiple projects in the realm of system management and monitoring are run under the label Big Sister.

It is able to:
  • monitor networked systems;
  • provide a simple real-time view of the current network status;
  • notify you when your systems are becoming critical;
  • generate a history of status changes;
  • log and display a variety of system performance data;
  • store gathered data in MySQL
    MySQL
    MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

     database or plain text files.


It intended to be compatible with Big Brother
Big Brother (software)
Big Brother is a tool for systems and network monitoring, generally used by system administrators. The advent of the dynamic web page allowed Big Brother to be one of the first monitoring systems to use the web as its exclusive interface. Prior to this, monitoring tools were generally console...

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